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World map

Every country, colored by Sworn Score.

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Countries covered: 217
Scored: 146
Median score: 56.4
Top ranked: Sweden

Year1991

Showing 1991 snapshot.

Year

1991

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19651970198019902000201020202026Live

Global promises

4,000 commitments across 217 countries

43%

achieved or on track

Achieved: 1,399 · 35.0%
On track: 301 · 7.5%
Failing: 1,817 · 45.4%
Broken: 14 · 0.4%
Tracking: 469 · 11.7%
Not verifiable: 0 · 0.0%

4,000 of 4,000 commitments are linked to a Sworn metric and verifiable against official data. See methodology for how each status is computed.

World trend

Median Sworn Score, all scored countries

55.5

-2.4 since 1965

Line shows the median Sworn Score across 192 scored countries each year. Shaded band is the inter-quartile range (25th–75th percentile) — the spread of the “typical half” of the world. Each year uses that year’s frozen methodology bounds, so the trend reflects real change, not a moving yardstick.

Green list & Red list · 2021 → 2026

Who’s moving the most, up and down.

Top 10 countries that improved the most and fell the most over the last 5 years.

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Green list

59 countries improved

Top 10 that improved the most

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Red list

133 countries declined

Top 10 that fell the most

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Rankings · 1991

Sortable country leaderboard

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Year1991

Snapshot: 1991

Rows10 25 50 100

54 countries

#	Country	Continent	Score
13	Seychelles Africa	Africa	72.1 ± 5
34	Mauritius Africa	Africa	65.3 ± 2
54	Cabo Verde Africa	Africa	60.5 ± 5
55	Lesotho Africa	Africa	60.4 ± 2
65	South Africa Africa	Africa	57.8 ± 5
71	Eswatini Africa	Africa	57.0 ± 5
76	Tunisia Africa	Africa	55.4 ± 2
78	Botswana Africa	Africa	55.0 ± 2
81	Algeria Africa	Africa	53.9 ± 2
83	Kenya Africa	Africa	52.7 ± 5
85	Namibia Africa	Africa	52.4 ± 5
86	Libya Africa	Africa	52.3 ± 5
87	Gabon Africa	Africa	52.3 ± 5
89	Zimbabwe Africa	Africa	51.8 ± 5
91	Malawi Africa	Africa	51.5 ± 5
92	Madagascar Africa	Africa	51.4 ± 2
99	Ghana Africa	Africa	50.4 ± 2
100	Gambia, The Africa	Africa	50.3 ± 5
101	Congo, Rep. Africa	Africa	50.2 ± 5
102	Burundi Africa	Africa	49.7 ± 5
104	Tanzania Africa	Africa	49.4 ± 2
106	Nigeria Africa	Africa	49.0 ± 2
109	Cameroon Africa	Africa	48.3 ± 2
110	Somalia, Fed. Rep. Africa	Africa	48.0 ± 5
112	Morocco Africa	Africa	46.7 ± 2
113	Sierra Leone Africa	Africa	46.1 ± 5
114	Central African Republic Africa	Africa	45.8 ± 5
115	Guinea-Bissau Africa	Africa	45.3 ± 5
116	Uganda Africa	Africa	44.7 ± 2
118	Cote d'Ivoire Africa	Africa	44.5 ± 2
120	Egypt, Arab Rep. Africa · Asia	Africa · Asia	44.3 ± 2
121	Zambia Africa	Africa	44.0 ± 5
122	Mozambique Africa	Africa	43.4 ± 5
124	Togo Africa	Africa	43.1 ± 5
125	Congo, Dem. Rep. Africa	Africa	42.8 ± 5
126	Rwanda Africa	Africa	42.5 ± 5
127	Benin Africa	Africa	42.4 ± 5
130	Mauritania Africa	Africa	42.0 ± 5
132	Mali Africa	Africa	41.8 ± 5
133	Chad Africa	Africa	41.7 ± 5
135	Burkina Faso Africa	Africa	41.4 ± 5
136	Guinea Africa	Africa	41.2 ± 5
137	Comoros Africa	Africa	41.0 ± 5
138	Senegal Africa	Africa	40.5 ± 5
140	Angola Africa	Africa	37.9 ± 5
141	Niger Africa	Africa	37.3 ± 5
143	Liberia Africa	Africa	34.8 ± 5
144	Equatorial Guinea Africa	Africa	34.5 ± 5
146	Ethiopia Africa	Africa	31.6 ± 5
—	Djibouti Africa	Africa	⚠ Insufficient data